U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations/Catalogs

Office-holders

The following is a chronological list of those who have held the office:

Name (acting)	Years served	U.N. Secretary-General	U.S. President
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.	1945–1946	Trygve Lie	Harry S. Truman
Herschel V. Johnson	1946–1947	Trygve Lie
Warren R. Austin	1947–1953	Trygve Lie, Dag Hammarskjold
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.	1953–1960	Dag Hammarskjold	Dwight D. Eisenhower
James J. Wadsworth	1960–1961
Adlai Stevenson	1961–1965	Dag Hammarskjold, U Thant	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
Arthur Goldberg	1965–1968	U Thant	Lyndon B. Johnson
George Ball	1968
James Russell Wiggins	1968–1969
Charles Yost	1969–1971		Richard Nixon
George H. W. Bush	1971–1973	U Thant, Kurt Waldheim
John Scali	1973–1975	Kurt Waldheim	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	1975–1976		Gerald Ford
William Scranton	1976–1977
Andrew Young	1977–1979		Jimmy Carter
Donald McHenry	1979–1981
Jeane Kirkpatrick	1981–1985	Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar	Ronald Reagan
Vernon Walters	1985–1989	Javier Perez de Cuellar
Thomas Pickering	1989–1992	Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros-Ghali	George H. W. Bush
Edward Perkins	1992–1993	Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Madeleine Albright	1993–1997	Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan	Bill Clinton
Bill Richardson	1997–1998	Kofi Annan
Peter Burleigh	1998–1999
Richard Holbrooke	1999–2001
James B. Cunningham	2001		George W. Bush
John Negroponte	2001–2004
John Danforth	2004–2005
Anne W. Patterson	2005
John Bolton	2005–2006
Alejandro Daniel Wolff	2006–2007	Kofi Annan, Ban Ki-moon
Zalmay Khalizad	2007–2009	Ban Ki-moon
Susan Rice	2009–present		Barack Obama